Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges, former Middle East bureau chief for the New York Times , is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute. His is the author, with Laila Al-Arian, of Collateral Damage and an earlier book, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (Free Press).

Currently

  • Daniel Berrigan: Forty Years After Catonsville

    May 20, 2008

    Time and age have not blunted his fierce critique of American empire and his radical interpretation of the Gospels.

  • Hedges Vs. Hitchens

    February 23, 2008

    The so-called "new atheists" may be as extreme as Christian fundamentalists, if not more.

  • Christianizing US History

    January 10, 2008 Subscribe

    With House Resolution 888, the religious right seeks to rewrite American history, turning the founding fathers from deists to Christian fundamentalists.

2007

  • Hands Off Iran

    November 21, 2007

    I will not pay my income tax if we go to war with Iran. Neither should you.

  • Our Veterans Have Spoken...

    July 25, 2007 Subscribe

    Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and our readers exchange views on "The Hidden War: Iraq Veterans Bear Witness" with authors Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian.

  • The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness

    July 9, 2007

    In a special investigation of the impact of the war on Iraqi civilians, interviews with fifty combat veterans reveals disturbing patterns of behavior by US troops in Iraq--brutal acts that often go unreported and almost always go unpunished.

2006

  • Get Carter

    December 28, 2006

    The flap over Jimmy Carter's new book underscores that the Israel lobby in the United States exists to serve only the interests of the Israeli right wing.

  • Letter From Canada: The New Christian Right

    November 9, 2006

    Canada's new conservative prime minister is forging ties with US conservatives and evangelicals as Canada moves toward an Americanized Christian state.

2004

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RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 12/1/08
This week: Imagining a new new deal, with Howard Zinn, Frances Moore Lappe, Andrea Batista Schlesinger, Eric Schlosser and...FDR himself. Plus: Ennis Carter and Stephen Duncombe on the political propaganda legacy of the WPA. (13mb mp3)

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